Cameron Books, Hemet, Calif., "is a place with a soul and that soul is the business owner Ron Chalmers," the Valley Chronicle noted in its profile of the man who "has many future plans for his 25-year-old business and giving up his passion of selling books without a fight is not one of them."
Chalmers currently runs the shop with one part-timer, considerably less than the five employees he had until 2008, when Chalmers "trimmed operations" and moved to a new location after a considerable rent increase.
"It was basically economics that we moved," he said. "We were thinking of just closing up shop, but word started getting around and we found this offer. Now it's a question of holding on instead of growing."
